85.5/ 100
12-month movement
+2.1 pts
On-time rate
82%
Average slip
2.1 mo
Developer research
Know who builds your home.
An off-plan purchase is a bet on a company, not on a floor plan. Compare UAE developers on the things that decide whether you get your keys: delivery record, construction progress, escrow compliance, regulatory standing, and what buyers say afterwards.
- Developers on the register
- 580
- With research on file
- 8
- Emirates covered so far
- 2 of 7
- Weighted scoring factors
- 6
The developers we watch closely
The companies we hold real research on — project history, handover record, licence status. Listed alphabetically on purpose: this is where our attention has gone so far, not a ranking, and ordering it like one would imply a verdict we have not reached on the other 572.
64.8/ 100
12-month movement
-2.1 pts
On-time rate
41%
Average slip
11.2 mo
78.2/ 100
12-month movement
+1.4 pts
On-time rate
58%
Average slip
7.9 mo
91.5/ 100
12-month movement
+2.3 pts
On-time rate
87%
Average slip
1.4 mo
82/ 100
12-month movement
+1.5 pts
On-time rate
71%
Average slip
3.8 mo
88/ 100
12-month movement
+1.9 pts
On-time rate
79%
Average slip
2.6 mo
76.4/ 100
12-month movement
+2.2 pts
On-time rate
73%
Average slip
3.4 mo
84.2/ 100
12-month movement
+3.3 pts
On-time rate
74%
Average slip
3.1 mo
A developer is more than a brand name
Marketing tells you about the lobby. These are the five things that decide whether the building gets finished, and the sixth that decides how much the other five are worth.
Handover speed
25%Did the building arrive when they said it would? Measured against the handover promised at launch — not the date most recently revised to.
Construction quality
20%Snagging lists, defect rates, and what buyers report in the first year after they move in.
Escrow compliance
20%Whether buyer money sits in a registered escrow account, and whether the project draws from it the way the law requires.
Service quality
15%What happens after handover: service charges, maintenance, and how a complaint actually gets answered.
Regulatory standing
15%Trade licence, RERA registration, and any action a regulator has taken against the company.
Review volume
5%How much verified buyer testimony sits behind everything above. A high score on thin evidence is worth less than the same score on deep evidence.
Developer trust leaderboard
The composite score, highest first. A ranking is a published verdict, so a company only appears once we hold a delivery record we would defend.
We have not published developer ratings yet.
Scoring a named company is a public judgement about whether someone should trust it with a deposit, and we will not publish one until it is built from a delivery record we hold and can show you. The profiles above list what we have verified so far, with no score attached. This table fills in when the first real assessments land.
Developers across the UAE
Counted by head office or by a project we hold in that emirate — a company registered in Dubai that builds in Ras Al Khaimah appears under both. All seven are listed, including the ones we have nothing for yet, because hiding those would make the country look smaller than it is and hide where our coverage stops.
How AQARCHECK scores a developer
Six weighted inputs produce one number from 0 to 100, and that number produces a tier. Both are published here so you can argue with the method rather than take the result on faith.
The inputs
- Handover speed25%
- Construction quality20%
- Escrow compliance20%
- Service quality15%
- Regulatory standing15%
- Review volume5%
The tiers
- Platinum tier85–100
- Gold tier70–84
- Silver tier55–69
- Bronze tier40–54
- Red Flag tier0–39
A developer with no tier has not been assessed. That is not a sixth band and it is not a warning — it means we have not looked yet.
Can't find the developer you are looking for?
AQARCHECK holds 580 UAE developers on the register, most of them recorded by name while the research is still ahead of us. All of them are searchable.
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